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Tower music is a musical performance from the top of a tower. It can also designate the music composed for or played in such a performance. In the early European Middle Ages, musical instruments on towers were used to warn of danger and mark the passage of time.
The City Tower Offenbach is a high-rise office building in the Mathildenviertel district of Offenbach am Main, Germany. Built between 2001 and 2003, the tower stands at 120 m (390 ft) tall with 32 floors and is the current 48th tallest building in Germany and the tallest in Offenbach. [2]
Hesse is also the federal state whose largest city, Frankfurt, is the only real skyscraper city in Germany. Out of a total of 22 skyscrapers in Germany, meaning buildings at least 150 metres (492 ft) tall, 20 are located in Frankfurt. Six of them are 200 m (660 ft) or higher.
The HVB-Tower, Arabella-Hochhaus, the BayWa-Hochhaus and The Westin Hotel are located here. Following a referendum in November 2004, Munich's high-rise buildings have since been limited to the Frauenkirche tower height of 99 meters, [1] even outside the city center. However, there are repeated initiatives to reconsider this, also due to price ...
The Center Potsdamer Platz, known as Sony Center until March 2023, is a complex of eight buildings located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, designed by Helmut Jahn. It opened in 2000 and housed Sony's German headquarters. The cinemas in the center were closed at the end of 2019.
Rank Name Image City Height (m) Height (ft) Floors Year Notes 1: Commerzbank Tower: Frankfurt: 259: 850: 56: 1997: Tallest building in Europe from 1997 to 2003; tallest building in the European Union from 1997 to 2011, and from 2020 to 2022; headquarters of Commerzbank; reaches a total height of 300.1 metres including the antenna [1]
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The tower is built as one large steel framework construction, similar to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The 150-metre-high (490 ft) and approximately 600-metric ton radio tower was originally planned strictly as a transmitting tower, but later additions included a restaurant at a height of approximately 52 m, and observation deck at a height of approximately 125 m.